Australia’s 2nd oldest collection, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, faces serious cuts. A disaster for the public and another attack on free, high-quality information infrastructure. See our article led by @palaeo-jrule.bsky.social with Nick Campione: friendsoftmag.org.au/Messages-of-...

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The bison, they are glorious

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I think this is indicative of a wider problem - the urge to stick names on as many things as possible is visible in lots of groups, including people trying to name every last node on their favoured phylogeny. We also have people like Greg Paul committing outright taxonomic vandalism.

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Yes. As a consequence, we seem to be headed back to the bad old days of dinosaur taxonomy, where every isolated scrap gets a name. This is causing a vast proliferation of genera based on indeterminate and fragmentary material that overwhelmes phylogenetic analyses with missing data (1/2)

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Gaaaahhh it’s so infuriating seeing this happen all over! Just earlier this year I described a bunch of new species from TMAG specimens, and everywhere is already cut to the bone.

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